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24 Sep 2014

IITs Relax Admission Criteria, Allow students with minimum 75% marks to take exam

Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have now relaxed their
IIT Admission Criteria to include students who have scored a minimum aggregate of
75% in Board exams to take up the exam (JEE Advanced). Earlier it was
restricted to the top 20% percentile students from Board Exams. Now, this has
been changed to the top 20 percentile or a minimum 75% aggregate in Boards
whichever is lower.

The decision was made by the IIT Council chaired by the Union
human Resource Development minister Smriti Irani. Furthermore, the minister
also announced at the council meeting held in Chennai that a committee will be
formed to resolve the IIT-UGC row over nomenclature of degrees awarded and the
four year courses at the IITs.

The decision came as a result of the recommendation from IIT
Joint Admission Board, IIT-JAB to relax the eligibility criteria as different
boards have different tendencies towards marks assignment.

Up until now only the students who have cleared JEE Main and the
ones among the top 20 percentile students in their respective Board
examinations were considered for JEE Advanced. However, JAB has recommended
that students who have scored 755 marks in class XII are also eligible to sit
in JEE Advanced.

Approx. 1.5 lack students were selected to sit in JEE
Advanced following which they were given admissions to different IITs. Now that
the admission criterion has been relaxed, students sitting in JEE Advanced 2015 would
increase.